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Pretty white girl and out of the shadows: The week in quotes

“Bro, I knew something was wrong when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man’s arms.”

IT WAS A week dominated by the good news of the discovery of Ohio woman Amanda Berry, ten years after she went missing in Cleveland along with two other women who she was held in captivity with for a decade.

Here at home, the government gave negotiators more time to come up with a deal on public sector pay cuts but it did not appear hopeful of an overarching deal, while the retirement of Sir Alex Ferguson as manager of Manchester United made headlines here and across the world.

All that and more, it’s the week in quotes:

Pretty white girl and out of the shadows: The week in quotes
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